In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants (1914)

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Record Details:

Title:
In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants
Date:
1914
Publisher:
New York, Appeal Printing Co.
Volume:
In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants : record volume 6
Leaf #:
000143
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
These seven volumes contain the testimonies and supporting documents from the U.S. District Court's antitrust lawsuit against the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC). Formed in 1908, the MPPC (sometimes referred to asœ"the Edison Trust" or just "the Trust") sought to control the American film industry through pooling patents and demanding that producers and exhibitors acquire licenses to those patents. Independent producers and exhibitors, who refused to license the patents, argued that the MPPC was an unlawful monopoly. In 1912 and 1913, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania heard testimonies from both MPPC members, such as Siegmund Lubin, and "Independents" who later became Hollywood moguls, such as William Fox. Ultimately, in 1915, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the MPPC in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and spelled the end for the already weakening MPPC. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012
Date Added:
September 12, 2024
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Defendants' Exhibit No. 105. 3175 to sell the right, title and interest aforesaid to the party 1 of the second part, and in which the party of the second part will, at eight o'clock in the forenoon of the sixtli day of September, 1910, acquire such right, title and interest aforesaid, under the terms of this agreement, including all of such property as is in the possession of exhibitors and transportation companies in (lie regular course of the aforesaid business of the party of the first part. SIXTH: The party of the first part further agrees that if errors or omissions of property should be round by the party of the second part in the aforesaid inventory, it 9 will furnish to the party of the second pari such additional inventories and information as the latter may demand for the correctioiii of such errors, the supplying of such omissions and for the locating and obtaining possession of property so omitted. SEVENTH: The party of the first part further agrees that the property aforesaid in which the party of the first part herein agrees to sell the right, title and interest aforesaid to the party of the second part, and in which the party of the second part will, at eight o'clock in the forenoon of the sixth day of September, 1910, acquire such right, 3 title and interest under the terms of this agreement, shall include all of the property which collectively formed the equipment and stock of motion pictures and merchandise of the aforesaid business of the party of the first part on the first day of March, 1910, wherever located, and all additions to said equipment and stock of motion pictures and merchandise between the date last named and eight o'clock in the forenoon of the tilth day of September, 1910, with the following exceptions: (1st) new motion picture projecting machines', new stereopticans, new auxiliaries and attachments for motion picture projecting machines and -1 stereopticons, new parts of motion picture projecting machines and stereopticons, new slides of songs, announcements, views and advertisements, electric light carbons, admission tickets, new phonographic records, and supplies for exhibitors of motion pictures, which were sold by the party of the first part as new merchandise, end shipped to the buyers thereof, before eight o'clock in the forenoon of the fifth day of September, 1910, the party of the first part, however, expressly agreeing that all such articles of merchandise as have been rented to anv exhibitor or used